Monday, October 3, 2011

Those attorney free Drones Gone Wild and the recent sweet al Yemenilicious hit on al Awlaki brought some funintended consequences at a recent event populated by all the populars. As ppl lol'd another Hellfire event that incinerated not one but 2 American born hajies in a foreign land several inappropriate handwringers kept bringing up the something Amendment.

"No 'Merican shall be dissed/deprived of life, liberty, bling or property w/out due process of law."

If Awlaki was in fact the architect of terrorism attacks then perhaps his demise is
to be welcomed. But we don't really know, do we? There was no xparent, legal, reviewable process by which he was placed on Great Satan's hit
list. There was no
judicial procedure, nor any public airing of the charges against him. He
had no opportunity to respond to specific allegations.

"The U.S. has requested the extradition of other Yemeni citizens, but we
refused to turn them over because our constitution prohibits the
extradition of Yemeni citizen to another country -- and this would apply
to al-Awlaki. Beside all of this, al Awlaki is in an area where we are conducting operations against al Qaeda, and
he is one of the people targeted for capture in those operations."

"The death of Awlaki is a major blow to al Qaeda's most active
operational affiliate. Awlaki was the leader of external operations for
al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In that role, he took the lead in
planning and directing efforts to murder innocent Americans. He directed
the failed attempt to blow up an airplane on Xmas Day in 2009. He
directed the failed attempt to blow up U.S. cargo planes in 2010. And he
repeatedly called on individuals in the United States and around the
globe to kill innocent men, women and children to advance a murderous
agenda."

“What constitutes due process in this case is a due process in war" best defined perhaps “As a general matter, it would be entirely lawful for the United States
to target high-level leaders of enemy forces, regardless of their
nationality, who are plotting to kill Americans both under the authority
provided by Congress in its use of military force in the armed conflict
with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces as well as
established international law that recognizes our right of self-defense"

wHoA!

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